Fighting Strength

Everett Cook | Jan. 28, 2014 | SB Nation

Joe Rogers, pictured here with young fan Elliot Huels, has achieved much despite being born with only one functional hand.

Already, the nurse was yelling. Joe Rogers had been alive for less than three minutes in the delivery room at Port Huron Hospital in Michigan, not long enough to be cleaned, but long enough to cause a commotion. Panicked, the nurse looked over at two first-time parents, fresh and green at 25 years old, and said, "We have a problem."